Monascus Purpureus Mutant, Nucleotide Sequence for Monascus Purpureus Mutant and Primers for Nucleotide Sequence of Monascus Purpureus Mutant

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to a mutant of  Monascus purpureus  NTU 568, a nucleotide sequence for  Monascus purpureus  NTU 568 and primers for nucleotide sequence of  Monascus purpureus  NTU 568, wherein the  Monascus purpureus  NTU 568 having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2 or SEQ ID NO 3 is deposited with Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany) on Nov. 18, 2013, with the accession number of DSM 28072. Moreover, the nucleotide sequence for NTU 568 and the primers for the nucleotide sequence are proposed in order to facilitate the person skilled in  Monascus purpureus  filed capable of carrying out the strain (mutant) identification of the NTU 568 according to the present invention. Moreover, the person skilled in  Monascus purpureus  filed can also rapidly complete the strain (mutant) identification of the NUT 568 by using DNA molecular marker technology, without culturing any isolated  Monascus purpureus  strain or live  Monascus purpureus  bacteria.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/946,823, filed on Nov. 15, 2010, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

SEQUENCE LISTING

The instant application contains a Sequence Listing which has been submitted in ASCII format via EFS-Web and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The ASCII copy is named sequence.txt and is 5,746 bytes in size.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a Monascus purpureus mutant, and more particularly to a mutant of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, a nucleotide sequence for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and primers for nucleotide sequence of Monascus purpureus NTU 568.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Recently, red yeast fermented products with multi functions are subject to more and more attention due to the flourishing development of health foods. In Asia, Monascus purpureus are applied in foods and medicines for thousands years, wherein the secondary metabolites of Monascus purpureus can be divided into four kinds of:

-   (1) Pigment group: including the red pigment of rubropunctamine and     monascorubramine, the yellow pigment of ankaflavin and monascin, and     orange pigment of rubropunctanin and monascorubrin; -   (2) Cholesterol-lowering substances: such as monacolin K; -   (3) Hypotensive agent substances: such as γ-aminobutyric acid     (GABA); and -   (4) Antioxidant substances: including dimerumic acid and     3-hydoxy-4-methoxy-benzoic acid

Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is an excellent local Monascus purpureus strain, and which is studied and developed by Tzu-Ming PAN, the graduate chair of Institute of Microbiology and Biochemistry of National Taiwan University, and the R&D team thereof. Besides, currently, the health-care characteristics of preventing Alzheimer's disease, hypolipidemic effect and antioxidative of the red mold (RM) powder manufactured by using the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 have been proven, wherein the health-care characteristics of preventing Alzheimer's disease, hypolipidemic effect and antioxidative of the RM powder is carried out by the secondary metabolites of monacolins, ankaflavin and monacsin.

Nowadays, the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is successful to be commercialized. However, in spite of that, the strain (mutant) identification and the DNA molecular marker of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 does still not be carried out, wherein the DNA molecular marker technology is usually used for identifying the DNA sequence or the RAPD genetic variation map.

Accordingly, in view of the specific DNA sequence, the specific RAPD genetic variation map, and the DNA molecular marker of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 still does not be finished, the inventor of the present application has made great efforts to make inventive research thereon and eventually provided a mutant of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, a nucleotide sequence for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and primers for nucleotide sequence of Monascus purpureus NTU 568.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a mutant of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, a nucleotide sequence for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and primers for nucleotide sequence of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, therefore the person skilled in Monascus purpureus filed is able to carried out the strain (mutant) identification of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 according to the present invention. Moreover, the person skilled in Monascus purpureus filed can also rapidly complete the strain (mutant) identification of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 by using DNA molecular marker technology, without culturing any isolated Monascus purpureus strain or live Monascus purpureus bacteria.

Accordingly, to achieve the primary objective of the present invention, the inventor of the present invention provides a Monascus purpureus mutant, which is Monascus purpureus NTU 568 having a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2 or SEQ ID NO 3. The Monascus purpureus NTU 568 was deposited with Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany) on Nov. 18, 2013, with the accession number of DSM 28072. Moreover, the nucleotide sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can be formed by treating the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process to a plurality of specific primers, wherein the specific primers comprising a first nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 4, a second nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO5, a third nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO6, a fourth nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO7, a fifth nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO8, and a sixth nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO9.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention as well as a preferred mode of use and advantages thereof will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is curve plots of time vs. monacolin K production and time vs. pH value for rice substrate and dioscorea substrate;

FIG. 2 is a bar graph of pH value vs. monacolin K production as well as citrinin production;

FIG. 3 is a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSα nucleotide sequence;

FIG. 4 is a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSδ nucleotide sequence; and

FIG. 5 is a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSγ nucleotide sequence.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

To more clearly describe a Monascus purpureus mutant, nucleotide sequences for the Monascus purpureus mutant and primers for the nucleotide sequences of the Monascus purpureus mutant according to the present invention, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings hereinafter. Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is an excellent local Monascus purpureus strain, and which is studied and developed by Tzu-Ming PAN, the graduate chair of Institute of Microbiology and Biochemistry of National Taiwan University, and the R&D team thereof. In the present invention, the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 has a specific nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2 or SEQ ID NO 3 is deposited with Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany) on Nov. 18, 2013, with the accession number of DSM 28072. The Monascus purpureus NTU 568 includes the characteristics of: growing rapidly, strong starch hydrolysis, high metabolites production. The basic culture medium for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 needs includes 2% rice powder, and the best culture temperature is 30° C., the best culture time is 48 hours and the best culture pressure is 1 atm.

Moreover, for verifying the viability of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, it moves the strain of Monascus purpureus NTU 568 from a slant tube to a culture medium of potato dextrose agar (PDA) for culturing. After 15-day culture, it digs and takes out three mycelium with the size of 1 cm³ from the PDA, and then disposes the three mycelium into a culture fluid having 2% rice powder for next-stage culture; therefore, after 48-hour culture, the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 reveals high viability because the culture fluid shows red color. Herein, it needs to further explain that, the storage method for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is to culture the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 on a PDA medium disposed in a slant tube under the store temperature of 4° C.; moreover, the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 must be treated with one time sub-cultured per 3 months.

Next, in order to prove that the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can indeed increase the production of monacolin K of the secondary metabolites, the various experiment results and data are presented as follows. Please refer to following table 1, which records the production of monacolin K extracted from fermented rice substrate and fermented dioscorea substrate which is fermented by using different

Monascus purpureus species. According to table 1, it can find that the production of monacolin K extracted from the fermented substrate fermented by using Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is highest no matter the substrate is rice or dioscorea.

TABLE 1 species of Monascus Fermented Production amount of purpureus substrate monacolin K (mg/g) M. sp. CA 505 rice 2.42 dioscorea 8.45 M. purpureus NTU 568 rice 7.62 dioscorea 18.92 M. sp. CH 001 rice 5.92 dioscorea 17.65 M. purpureus NTU 601 rice 0.58 dioscorea 3.54 M. purpureus NTU 301 rice 0.51 dioscorea 3.08 M. anka M13 rice 0.11 dioscorea 0.63 M. sp. KT rice 0.36 dioscorea 3.89

Please refer to FIG. 1, which illustrates curve plots of time vs. monacolin K production and time vs. pH value for rice substrate and dioscorea substrate. In FIG. 1, the solid circle data points represent the production of monacolin K extracted from the fermented rice substrate, and the hollow triangle data points mean the production of monacolin K extracted from the fermented dioscorea substrate. From FIG. 1, it can find that the pH value of the fermented dioscorea substrate reduces to 3.0 from 3.5 in 12-day culture and fermentation, and there has no obvious difference between the two pH values. Oppositely, the production of monacolin K extracted from the fermented dioscorea substrate is increased to 18 mg/g. In addition, please refer to FIG. 2, there is shown a bar graph of pH value vs. monacolin K production as well as citrinin production. From FIG. 2, it is able to know that there has no obvious difference between the monacolin K production and the citrinin production.

Next, in order to prove that the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can indeed increase the production of monascin and ankaflavin of the secondary metabolites, the various experiment data are presented as follows. Please refer to following table 2, which records the production of monascin and ankaflavin extracted from different red mold fermented products. From table 2, it can apparently find that red mold fermented product fermented by using the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 includes the monascin of 11.65 mg/0.5 g and the ankaflavin of 1.77 mg/0.5 g, but others red mold fermented products does not includes monascin and ankaflavin.

TABLE 2 Production amount Production amount of monascin of ankaflavin Red mold species/products (mg/0.5 g) (mg/0.5 g) Monascus product — — (NU SKIN) Monascus product (CPC) — — Monascus product 1 — — (jensheng) Monascus product (Koda) — — Monascus product — — (Prince Pharmaceutical) Monascus product — — (Standard) Monascus product 2 — — (jensheng) Monascus product 3 — — (jensheng) Monascus product — — (SANHE) Monascus product — — (YU-SHAN) Monascus product — — (WEI-CHUAN) Monascus purpureus 11.65 1.77 NTU 568

Furthermore, in order to identify the DNA sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568, it obtain the whole genome sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 by way of pyrosequencing, wherein the whole genome sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 includes 3,326 contigs with the total sequence length of 247,174,841 bps. Moreover, in the 3,326 contigs, the largest length of a specific contig is 175,588 bps.

Next, the Aspergillus is taken as a reference species and the software of FGENESH (SoftBerry, Inc., NY, USA) is then used for analyzing and predicting the DNA sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568. The analysis and predict result shows 8,191 sequence data of mRNA and protein, wherein the total sequence length of the mRNA is 13,140,800 bps. Therefore, the whole genome sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and the mRNA and protein sequence data are further edited to a single FASTA file, and then the FASTA file is transformed into a BLAST data by using the software of BLAST⁺ (Boratyn et al., 2013) for executing the gene search and alignment.

The gene search and alignment are executed by using polyketide synthases (PKSs) mechanism and model. Please refer to following table 3, which records several PKS fragments in PKS conserved domain. Therefore, the gene alignment between the PKS fragments of M. pilosus mok A and the BLASTp data of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 as well as the BLASTn data of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 have been completed.

TABLE 3 Accession no. Description Sequence cd00833 a polyketide synthases IAIVGMACRFPGAADPDE (PKSs) polymerize simple fatty FWENLLEGRDAISEIPEDRWDA acids into a large variety of DGYYPDPGKPGKTYTRRGGFL different products, called DDVDAFDAAFFGISPREAEAM polyketides, by successive DPQQRLLLEVAWEALEDAGYS decarboxylating Claisen PESLAGSRTGVFVGASSSDYLE condensations. LLARDPDEIDAYAATGTSRAFL PKSs can be divided into 2 ANRISYFFDLRGPSLTVDTACSS groups, modular type I PKSs SLVALHLACQSLRSGECDLALV consisting of one or more large GGVNLILSPDMFVGFSKAGML multifunctional proteins and SPDGRCRPFDADADGYVRGEG iterative type II PKSs, complexes VGVVVLKRLSDALRDGDRIYA of several monofunctional VIRGSAVNQDGRTKGITAPSGE subunits. AQAALIRRAYARAGVDPSDID YVEAHGTGTPLGDPIEVEALA KVFGGSRSADQPLLIGSVKSNI GHLEAAAGLAGLIKVVLALEH GVIPPNLHFETPNPKIDFEESPL RVPTEARPWPAPAGPRRAGVSS FGFGGTNAHVIL DQ176595 PKS domain sequence of ACGACATCGTAGGGGGT polyketide synthase mokA of GCGTTCGCGAGTCGCGATGAC monacolin K biosynthetic gene CTCGGTCATCTTGGCGCTGCC cluster in M. pilosus AATCGAACCACTCTCCGCCTG GCCCTGCTTGTAATCGAAGAC CGCTTGGAACAAGGGGGCCG GTTCCGCTGTTTCGGCGGTGG CCCCCGGGACCTCGAATCCGA GGCGCTCGAGCAGCACCCCG TAGGGCACGCGGGCGTGCTG CATGGCCTCGCGCACCTTGTC CTTGGTGGCGACCAGGTGCTC GCCAAAGGTGATGTGCGGGA CGAAGTTGCGGAAGCGCAGC GGGAGCAGGTTGGCGAAAAA GCCCATGCCCGCCAGTTCATC CACGTTCGTGCGATTGGTGTC GGCCAGGCCTATGCTGAAGTC GCTGCTGCCCGTCAATCGTGC CAGGAGCACGTGGTACGCAG CCAGGTAGAATTGCATGGGCG TGGCTTTGTGCTTGCGACTGC GCTCGCGGATGCGGAAAGCG ACCATGGGGTCGAGACGCGC GATCGCTTCGTGTTGCTTCCA CGAGTTGGGCTGGCGGGCGT GGTTCGGGCTATTAAGGCCAT CTTCGCCCAGAAGCATCCGCG GGAGGACCGGGGACACCACG CCCGTGGGCTGGTGGTGCATC GATTCCCAGTACGCGAGGTCC GCATCCATCTGGCCGGACTCG AGCGCTTCTCGCTGCCGCGTC GCGAGGTCTGCAAATTGAGG GACGTGCTTGTCGAGGGTCA CGCCGCCGTATAACTGGCTCG CTTCGACAAAGATATT

Therefore, the gene alignment results reveal that, besides the well-known PKS genomes of citrinin (Accession: AB243687.1), monacolin K (Accession: DQ176595.1) and PKS1 (Accession: AJ414729.1), the whole genome sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 further includes 7 candidate gene fragment in PKS conserved domain, wherein the 7 candidate gene fragment are named as PKSε, PKSθ, PKSγ, PKSκ, PKSδ, PKSα, and PKSσ recorded in following table 4. Moreover, after completing the DELTA-BLAST analysis, the PKS fragments of PKSγ, PKSδ and PKSα are regarded as new PKS fragments of M. purpureus which are never recorded or written in any literatures or data base.

TABLE 4 PKS Contig ID no. Protein sequence ID E value PKSε 986 148_exon_(s)_431197_− 1e-102 _443034_3945_aa,_chain_+ PKSθ 195 1001_12_exon_(s)_2896331_− 1e-102 _2908604_ _3854_aa,_chain_+ PKSγ 549 535_6_exon_(s)_1607184_− 7e-98 _1614486_ _2307_aa,_chain_− PKSκ 1154 396_5_exon_(s)_1203158_− 6e-92 _1210134_2245_aa,_chain_+ PKSδ 977 403_6_exon_(s)_1222398_− 7e-77 _1229259_2188_aa,_chain_+ PKSα 657 38_6_exon_(s)_101837_− 9e-72 _106246_1263_aa,_chain_− PKSσ 200 757_13_exon_(s)_2356480_− 5e-59 _2361939_1583_aa,_chain_−

Based above gene search and alignment results, it is able to assume that the gene fragment of PKSα may be a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568. Therefore, as listed in the following Sequence Listing, the nucleotide sequence of PKSα is defined as SEQ ID NO 1, and the sequence length of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1 is 1,390 bps. Furthermore, the nucleotide sequence of PKSα is treated with a BLASTx sequence alignment, and the alignment results are recorded in following table 5.

TABLE 5 Max identity Accession no. Description (%) E value XP_002149769 PKS: Talaromyces 64.2 0 marneffei ATCC 18224 XP_002340038 PKS: Talaromyces 63.2 0 stipitatus ATCC 10500 EFW23245 PKS: Coccidioides 60.5 0 posadasii str. Silveira XP_003070229 PKS: Coccidioides 60.4 0 posadasii C735 delta SOWgp EJB11047 citrinin (PKS): 60.3 0 Coccidioides immitis C735 RS XP_001243185 hypothetical protein 60.3 0 (CIMG_07081): Coccidioides immitis RS XP_002487778 PKS: Talaromyces 59.3 0 stipitatus ATCC 10500 EOD53036 putative polyketide 57.8 0 synthase protein: Neofusicoccum parvum UCRNP2 CAK40124 unnamed protein 58.8 0 product: Aspergillus niger XP_001393501 polyketide 58.8 0 synthase:Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

Continuously, please refer to FIG. 3, there is shown a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSα nucleotide sequence. From FIG. 3, it is able to know that the conserved domain PKS of PKSα is PKS_KS, which belongs to type II polyketide synthases (PKS). Moreover, from the table 5, it can further find that the PKS most similar to the PKSα is Talaromyces marneffei ATCC 1822 (identity=64.2), and there has no PKSs of Monascus genus similar or the same to the PKSα. So that, it is able to confirm that the gene fragment of PKSα is a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 based above comparison and analysis.

Moreover, the gene fragment of PKSδ can also be assumed as a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568. As listed in the following Sequence Listing, the nucleotide sequence of PKSδ is defined as SEQ ID NO 2, and the sequence length of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 2 is 1,024 bps. In order to identify whether the assumption is correct or not, the nucleotide sequence of PKSδ is treated with a BLASTx sequence alignment, and the alignment results are recorded in following table 6.

TABLE 6 Max identity Accession no. Description (%) E value XP_001270321 PKS: Aspergillus 80.1 0 clavatus NRRL 1 ENH62327 Lovastatin nonaketide 39.1 0 synthase: Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense race 1 EKV12048 Phenolpthiocerol 36.9 0 synthesis polyketide synthase ppsA: Penicillium digitatum PHI26 ELA32194 polyketide synthase: 36.5 0 Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Nara gc5 ELA38363 polyketide synthase: 37.3 0 Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Nara gc5 EKV06858 hypothetical protein 34.7 0 PDIG_76310: Penicillium digitatum PH126 EFQ35173 containing protein: 36.6 0 Glomerella graminicola M1.001 XP_664395 hypothetical protein 34.3 0 AN6791.2: Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4 ENH88027 polyketide synthase: 37.1 0 Colletotrichum orbiculare MAFF 240422 ELQ32864 fatty acid synthase 37.8 0 S-acetyltransferase: Magnaporthe oryzae Y34

Please refer to FIG. 4, there is shown a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSδ nucleotide sequence. From FIG. 4, it is able to know that the conserved domain PKS of PKSδ is PKS_KS-DH-MT-ER-KR-ACP, which belongs to type I polyketide synthases (PKS). Moreover, from the table 6, it can further find that the PKS most similar to the PKSδ is the polyketide synthases (PKS) of Aspergillus clavatus NRRL 1 (identity=80.1), and there has no PKSs of Monascus genus similar or the same to the PKSδ. So that, it is able to confirm that the gene fragment of PKSδ is a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 based above comparison and analysis. Besides, the gene fragment of PKSγ can also be assumed as a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568. As listed in the following Sequence Listing, the nucleotide sequence of PKSγ is defined as SEQ ID NO 3, and the sequence length of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 3 is 1,096 bps. In order to identify whether the assumption is correct or not, the nucleotide sequence of PKSγ is treated with a BLASTx sequence alignment, and the alignment results are recorded in following table 7.

TABLE 7 Max identity Accession no. Description (%) E value XP_002485355 PKS: Talaromyces 44.8 0 stipitatus ATCC 10500 ADA79525 PKS: Delitschia 44.9 0 winteri XP_001273762 PKS: Aspergillus 45.1 0 clavatus NRRL 1 XP_002482833 PKS: Talaromyces 44.4 0 stipitatus ATCC 10500 XP_001258783 PKS: Neosartorya 45.5 0 fischeri NRRL 181 XP_001816573 PKS: Aspergillus 44.8 0 oryzae RIB40 EDP53518 PKS: Aspergillus 45.8 0 fumigatus A1163 XP_748462 PKS: Aspergillus 45.6 0 fumigatus Af293 BAE54571 unnamed protein 44.2 0 product: Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 XP_002383534 PKS: Aspergillus 44.3 0 flavus NRRL3357

Please refer to FIG. 5, there is shown a conserved domain analysis diagram for PKSγ nucleotide sequence. From FIG. 5, it is able to know that the conserved domain PKS of PKSγ is PKS_KS-DH-MT-ER, which belongs to type I polyketide synthases (PKS). Moreover, from the table 7, it can further find that the PKS most similar to the PKSγ is the polyketide synthases (PKS) of Talaromyces stipitatus ATCC 10500 (identity=44.8), and there has no PKSs of Monascus genus similar or the same to the PKSγ. So that, it is able to confirm that the gene fragment of PKSγ is a novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 based above comparison and analysis.

Thus, through above descriptions, the novel gene fragments and the related nucleotide sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 have been introduced. Next, for the nucleotide sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can be formed by treating the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process to a plurality of specific primers, the specific primers will be introduced in follows.

As the following table 8 shows, the primers designed by the software of Geneious 4.5.8 are recorded. According to the following Sequence Listing, the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSα F is defined as SEQ ID NO 4 and has 19 bp sequence length, the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSα R is defined as SEQ ID NO 5 and has 19 bp sequence length, the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSδ F is defined as SEQ ID NO 6 and has 20 bp sequence length, and the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSδ R is defined as SEQ ID NO 7 and has 20 bp sequence length. Moreover, according to the following Sequence Listing, the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSγ F is defined as SEQ ID NO 8 and has 20 bp sequence length, and the nucleotide sequence of primer PKSγ R is defined as SEQ ID NO 9 and has 20 bp sequence length.

TABLE 8 Primer Sequence ID (5′ → 3′) Target PKSα F G A C T G C G G T C A T C C G G C C C PKSα PKSα R G C G T G T C C C C G G A G C T A C A PKSδ F G C G A G C C A A C C G T C T G G A C C PKSδ PKSδ R C G A G A C G A C C A C C G T T G C C C PKSγ F G C G A G C C A A C C G T C T G G A C C PKSγ PKSγ R C G A G A C G A C C A C C G T T G C C C

Continuously, the primers listed in the table 8 are executed RAPD through PCR process, wherein the polymerase chain reaction cocktail contains 3 ng DNA, 20 nM primers, a 1× Exsel reaction buffer, 0.5 U Exsel DNA polymerase (Bertec Enterprise, Taipei, Taiwan), and 100 M dNTPs. The reaction conditions of the PCR is as described: (1) 35-cycle processes with 95° C. (5 min) for heating, 95° C. (30 sec) for heating and −62° C. (1 min) for cooling; and (2) 70° C. (10 min) for reaction. Moreover, after completing the PCR process, it is able to execute the electrophoresis analysis for the PCR products by using 1% agarose gel, wherein the MISSION BIOTECH Co. Ltd. is commissioned to complete the electrophoresis analysis. After electrophoresis analysis and genome sequencing, it is able to confirm and prove that the PKSα, PKSγ and PKSδ are indeed the novel gene fragment (sequence) for the Monascus purpureus NTU 568.

Sequence PKS Length ID (bp) Sequence α 1390 G A C T G C G G T C A T C C G G C C C A G G A A A C C A G A A T G G A T A T C T G G C G C C T T C T A G A A C C T G G A T A G T G G C C G G A T C C C T C G C G C T G G G A G C C T G G G T G A C T A T G A G G G A G G C G T T G G A A C C G G A G G C G C C A T A A T T A T T G A T G A G G G C C G C G C G G A A G T C C T C G T T C C A G G G C G T C A G C T T G G T G G C A A T C T T C A T G T T A T G T T C T G G C A A G G C T T T T A T G G A T G G A T T C A T G G T G G T A A A G C T T G C C T G G G G T G G G A T G T A A C C T T C A T T A A T C A T G A G G A G C A C C T T G A T G A G G G A A A T G A C C C C T G A C G T A C A C T C G G T A T G T C C G A T G A G G C C C T T G A C A G A G C C A A A G T G C A G T G G T G T T G A G C G A T T G G G G C C C C C A A G T A C T C T C A G G A T A C T C T C A T A T T C T G C T G G G T C T C C C A C A G G A G T G C C A G T G C C G T G A G C T T C A A C G A C A G T A A T C T G T T T A G G C A C C A G A T G G G C C T C C C T G G T A A C G T C C T T G A A G A G C T C T G A A A G G G A G G G C G A G T T T G G C A C G A A G A T T G G G G T G C A G T T C T G G T T T T G A T A G A C A G C G G T G C T C G C A A T G G T C C C C A G G A T C T G G T C G C C G T C C T C A A T T G C A G T G C T G A G C T T C T T C A A G A A G A C A G C A G C A A T G C C T T C A C C G C G A C A A T A G C C A T C T G C A T G A G C G T C G A A T G G C T T G C A T T G G C C C G T T G G A C T C A G G A A G G A C G C C C C T G C C A A G T T C T G G A A C C A G A G A G G A T T C G T C A T T A C A T T C G T A C C A C C G G C C A G G G C A G C G G T A C A C T C G C C G C T G A G G A T A G C T T T G C A G G C C T G A T G A A C T G C T A C A G C G G A C G A G G A G C A T G C A G T G T C G A T G G T C A G G C C A G G A C C G G T C C A G C C G A A G T A G T G G C T G A T C T T T C C T G C A A T G A A G C T C T T C A G G T T G C C A G T G G C C G A G A A G G C A T T C G G A G C A T G G C A G G C A A T G T T G T T C T C A T A G T C C G C A G C G C A A A C G C C A A T A T A G C A C C C A A T C T G C T T G T C A A C G C T G G G G T T G C A G A A A T A T C C C G A C T G T T C G A C A G C C T G A T A G G C G A T T T G C A G C A T G T G G C G C T G C T G A G G A T C C G T C G A G G C A A T C T C T C G C G G G C T C T T C T T G A A G A A C T T G T G A T C A A A G G C A T C G T G G T C T C G G A T A A A G T T T C C A A A C C A C T T C C G T T T C G T A T C G A G C T C G C G G A A T A T T G T G T C G A A G G T A A A G C G T T C C T T G G G T A C T T C C T G G T G C T G T G A C T C C C C C C T G C A G A G C A A G T C C C A G A A C C C T T C G A G G T C A T C T G C A C C G G C C A C C T T A C A C G A C A T G C C A A T G A C G G C G A T G T C G T T T T C G T C G A C C G C A T G G G C G T A T T T C A A A G C A G A T G T A G C T C C G G G G A C A C G C A δ 1024 G C G A G C C A A C C G T C T G G A C C A A C T C G A C C G T C A T T C T C T C A A A G T C C T G A C G G A T C T G C C C T C C T A T C C C T G G A T G C A T T C C C T C C G G T T C T G G T A C G A G T C T C G T C T A A G C T A T G A C T A T C G C C A T C G A T C A C A C C C T C G T C A C C A C C T G G T A G G G G C T C C C A C G G C G G A T C A C A A C G C A C T G G A G C C G A G A T G G A G A A A C T A C C T G C G G G T C T C C G A G A G C C C C T G G A T A C G C G A G C A C G T C G T T C A G T C T C G C A T A A T C T A C C C A G G T G C G G G A T T C A T C G T G A T G G C A A T C G A G G C T G C C G C T C A G C T G G C G G A T T C G T C G A A G A A G G T C A A G G G G T T C G A G C T G C G A G A T G T C C A G A T C A A C C G G G C A T T G C A G G T G C C G G A A G G C G A A G A A G G C G T T G A A A C C A T A C T C C A C C T G C G T C C G T A T C A G G C G C A G G G C C T C A C C A A G G G C T C G C A C T G G G A C G A G T T C G T C A T C T A T T C C T A C C A G T C A A C G C A G G G C T G G C A A G A C C A C G C G C G T G G C T T G A T C G T G A C A C A C T A C C A C A G C A A C A A G G C G G G G T T T G A T C T G C A T C G G G A A G A C G A G A T A C A G C T G C A G A T G C A T C G G G A G C A A T A C C T G A G A T C C T C T G G G C T A T G C T T G T C G A C A A T C G A A C T G G A T G C G T T C T A C G A T C G C C T C G G C C A G A T G G G C A T G G A A T T T G G T C C G G C A T T C C G C A A C C T G T C G A G C A T C C G A C A C T G C A A C G G C C A G A G T G T C T G T C A G C T G C G T A T T C C A G A C A C C A A A G T G C A G A T G C C A G A C G A G T T T G A G T T T A A G C A T G T T A T T C A C C C C A T C A C G C T G G A T A A C A T C T T C C A C A T G G T T C T G C C C T C T C G A G T A G G A T C G G G T G C A T C G A T G A G G G A T G C G C A T G T T C C G G T C T C C C T G C A G A G T C T G T A T A T T G C T G C C G A T A T A A A A A G C A A C C C T G G G A C C C T C C T T A C A G G C C A A T C C A C C A T T A C G C A T G A G G A C G A C A G C G G T T T T G G G G C A A C G G T G G T C G T C T C G γ 1096 A G C A C C T C G G A G C A A C G G T T C T T G C G A T T G C A A A T A C A A T G A G T G G G A A A C T G A G C T T G C T C A A T T C C T T C C C G G A T T C A A C T G T T C T C A C C C T G G A T G A A A T T A C G A A T T C G A G C A C T C A G A C G T T C G G A C G A G C G G A C G T C A T C C T G A G C A A C C A T G G G G T C A A C C C A A G A T G G T A T C A T G G G G A A T T A T T A G G G C C A T G C G G G C G C T T T A T C G A T T A C T C T G A C A T T G A A G G T A C C A C G A G T C A T A T T G C A G A T G A C A G T C A G G C T G A T G A A A T C T T G A T C C A T A G C G A A G T C T G T G C C A G G A T T G A C C T C G A C T G T C T T C T C A A G C A T C G A C C A G T G C T G G T T T C T G A A G T C T T A G A A G T C G C G C A C A A T T T G G T T A G A G A G A G A A T C G T G A A T A T T G G A G G C A A A G A G C C C A A G A T A T T C T C A T T C T C A C A A C T A C A A C T T G C A T T T G A C C A C C T G G C A T C T A T G C A G G A C A C T G T G C C T A C T A T C A T C A C G G C C G A A G A C G G C T G T C A A G T C A G C G T C T C G C C A C C A T C C T T C G G C T C C A C C C C A T T C A T C T T C T C C C C G G A C A A A G T G T A T C T T C T C G T G G G G G G C C T G A G C G G T C T T G G C C T T G A G C T G G C C G A A T G G A T G G T G C T C C G T G G C G C G C G T C A G C T T G C T T T C A T G T C T C G A T C G G G T G C A G G A A A C G C C G C T G C G A C T G C T A T G C T G G C G A G A T T G G C G G C A A A A G G G G C G C G A A C A A C G G T G T A C C G A T G C G A T G T G A C C G A T T T C T C C G C A G T G G G A C A A T G C A T C A T G C A G A T A G G G C C T C A G T T A G G C G G T A T T T T C C A T G C C G C T G C G G T G A T T G A T G A C T G C C C C C T G C A G C A G A T G T C C G T T T C C C A A T G G T G T C G C A C A A T C T C G C C C A A G G T C C G C G G A G C A G A C A A C C T T G A T C G A G C A A C A G C A G G C A T G G A C T T G G A C T T T T T C A T C T G C T T C T C C T C T G C C T C A G C A G T G G T T G G A A C C A A G G C C C A G G C A A G C T A T G T G G C C G G C A A C A C C T A C A T G G A C G C C C T G A T G C G G A G C C G T C G A C A G C G C G G A C T A A G T G G C A C G G C C A T T A A T A T C G G C A T G G T G A T A G G G A T T G G T C T G G T C G C T G C G G A T G C T A A G C T T G A G G C A A G C A T G A A A C G G A C T G G T T T C G A T C C G G T C A A T G A G T A T G A A T T C T T C T G T C T G A T A G A A G A G G C A G T T C A G A C A G G A C G C T C G C T G A C G A C C T C C G A C G A C G G G A A C A T G G A G A G T T T C C G G A T T G T T A C T G G G G C T C G C G T G A C A G G G C C A C A G T G C T

Thus, through the descriptions, the mutant of Monascus purpureus NTU 568, nucleotide sequence for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and primers for nucleotide sequence of Monascus purpureus NTU 568 of the present invention has been completely introduced and disclosed; in summary, the present invention has the following advantages:

In the present invention, the nucleotide sequence for Monascus purpureus NTU 568 and the primers for the nucleotide sequence are proposed in order to facilitate the person skilled in Monascus purpureus filed capable of carrying out the strain (mutant) identification of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 according to the present invention. Moreover, the person skilled in Monascus purpureus filed can also rapidly complete the strain (mutant) identification of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 by using DNA molecular marker technology, without culturing any isolated Monascus purpureus strain or live Monascus purpureus bacteria.

The above description is made on embodiments of the present invention. However, the embodiments are not intended to limit scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or alterations within the spirit of the present invention still fall within the scope of the present invention.

Sequence Listing 

What is claimed is:
 1. A Monascus Purpureus mutant, which is a Monascus purpureus NTU 568 having a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2 or SEQ ID NO 3, and deposited with Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany) on Nov. 18, 2013, with the accession number of DSM
 28072. 2. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 1, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can be formed by treating the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process to a plurality of specific primers.
 3. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 2, wherein the specific primers comprising a first nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 4 or SEQ ID NO
 5. 4. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 3, wherein the specific primers comprising a second nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 6 or SEQ ID NO
 7. 5. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 4, wherein the specific primers comprising a third nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 8 or SEQ ID NO
 9. 6. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 1, wherein the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can increase the production of monascin and ankaflavin in the secondary metabolites thereof.
 7. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 1, wherein the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 is cultured with a specific culture medium having a specific culture substrate under a specific culture condition.
 8. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 7, wherein the wherein the specific culture condition comprises a culture temperature of 30° C., a culture time of 48 hours, a culture pressure of 1 atm.
 9. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 7, wherein the specific culture medium contains the specific culture substrate with the percentage of 2%.
 10. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 7, wherein the specific culture substrate is selected from the group consisting of: rice powder and dioscorea powder.
 11. The Monascus Purpureus mutant of claim 1, wherein the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 can increase the production of monacolin K in the secondary metabolites thereof.
 12. A primer for identifying the Monascus purpureus NTU 568 of claim 1, being selected from the group consisting of: (SEQ ID NO 4) (1) primer PKSα F: GACTGCGGTCATCCGGCCC; (SEQ ID NO 5) (2) primer PKSα R: GCGTGTCCCCGGAGCTACA; (SEQ ID NO 6) (3) primer PKSδ F: GCGAGCCAACCGTCTGGACC; (SEQ ID NO 7) (4) primer PKSδ R: GCGTGTCCCCGGAGCTACA; (SEQ ID NO 8) (5) primer PKSγ F: GCGAGCCAACCGTCTGGACC; and (SEQ ID NO 9) (6) primer PKSγ R: CGAGACGACCACCGTTGCCC.


13. The primer of claim 12, wherein the primer PKSα F or PKSα R can be amplified to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1 by way of being processed the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process.
 14. The primer of claim 12, wherein the primer PKSδ F or PKSδ R can be amplified to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 2 by way of being processed the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process.
 15. The primer of claim 12, wherein the primer PKSγ F or PKSγ R can be amplified to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 3 by way of being processed the RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA) and the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) process. 